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Originally Posted by Bobcat
I'm voting on KFO but why am I not seeing any comments on the site. I've written a couple and I'm sure many on here will have too. Any ideas or do you have to register for your comment to count and to see others?
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Well the comments are supposed to be verified by a human (allegedly) and so I suspect is suffering from the 'human condition'...
Laziness
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Originally Posted by Dephormation
Even Phorm refer to it as a user identifier. What could be more personal? Its more personal than your phone number, your IP address, your home address. Its on a par with a social security number.
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Phorm's pulling another fast one, their claim that the process is anonymous is a total sham. They are going around conning people like the ICO and Lords/Ladies/MPs with this b~llshit because those power brokers of British governance are technically illiterate. Phorm will use back channels of information along with their sneaky partners to marry up the information from many different sources. That data is being clocked and collated! No doubt about it. The only clever thing is Phorm can look you in the eye and say 'WE' aren't doing it,
with this dodgy profiling system we are trying to distract your attention with... (looks away covers mouth with hand,,, and whisper mutters "Are friends are doing the un-anonymising for us *wink*")
I'm sure Richard Clayton could write another PhD on how that information is scattered and then pulled back into a central repository... Phorm is just doing a smoke and mirrors trick... How the
ADMIN EDIT - DO NOT ATTEMPT TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER can they say
READING EVERYTHING IS A PRIVACY ENHANCEMENT???!!! it defies all logic.
C'mon Richard we need a nice research paper from you regarding all this sleight of hand trickery that's really going on.
Note: NebuAd's anonymising personal data has already been busted! Any CompSci student worth their salt knows that a oneway hash on a very small data set, IPv4 dotted quad, is virtually a lookup list.
Note2: I came across a complex Internet map of how the spammer/spyware/adware and advertizers are linked together and how they share cookie profile information with each other. Shame I cannot give you the URL it was fascinating and would scare the living crap out of everybody here that thinks it must be hard to track people across the Internet. Visit a dozen or so sites after deleting your cookies and web cache and you may find that the b~stards have aquired your personal profile again, against your wishes.
Has anyone else seen this map I'm referring to, or something similar? (I might have come across it on Slashdot or TheRegister about 5 years ago 'memory is fading')